Chapter 79 You Still Have to Take Charge of This Family

After a busy day, I finally peeled all the chestnuts, mashed them into paste and dried them in the sun.

Su Ying boiled water again. Su Lu thought she was going to cook porridge, but after the water boiled, she saw that Su Ying threw some sour dates into the water.

"Aying, can we cook these sour dates and eat them?" Su Lu smelled the sour smell in the air and felt her mouth was full of sour water.

"Make sour jujube cake!" Su Ying stirred the sour jujubes in the pot and fished them out after a few minutes. "Alu, you cook the porridge! Chop the cabbage and cook it in the porridge."

Su He sat there enjoying the breeze, and Su Ying didn't call her.

Su Ying didn't dare to take risks when it came to food. Who knew if Su He would be so cruel as to spit in it?

No one talked to her all day, and she felt ignored and neglected, which was actually quite uncomfortable.

Su He felt uncomfortable, but others felt much more comfortable. No one wanted to argue with others endlessly all day long.

Su Ying sat there peeling the hawthorn dates. The hawthorn dates were not big, and it took her a long time to peel half a basin of hawthorn dates.

I couldn’t bear to throw away the peeled jujube skins, so I hung them out to dry and then ground them into jujube powder after they were dried.

Stir the pulp with chopsticks. The pulp of the cooked jujube is slippery.

Stir it with chopsticks for a while, the jujube kernels will come out and the flesh will become sticky.

Pick out the sour jujube kernels, add chestnut paste and a little salt, and mix well.

Pour onto a gauze-lined sieve and spread into a thin layer.

"Sister, is this the sour jujube cake?" Xiao Tao looked at it very seriously.

"Not really. Without sugar, the chestnut paste isn't sweet enough. It's probably quite sour. It would be better with honey."

Su Ying tried to make some snacks to satisfy the little ones.

When I have honey, I’ll make a mold and make jujube cakes and jujube slices. They will be sour, sweet and chewy, and they will be delicious.

In the evening, when the workers came back from work, the large and small winnowing baskets in the yard were filled with sour dates and chestnut paste drying, and the walnuts and oil tea fruits that had been drying all day were put into backpacks.

Each person gets a bowl of chestnut and cabbage porridge and a few slices of braised meat.

They each found a place to sit down, enjoyed the cool breeze, slowly drank their porridge, and chatted about all sorts of things.

The atmosphere is quiet and warm. It is the first time I have had such a pleasant dinner here.

Xiao Qin's mother and daughter sat aside, like outsiders, no one paid any attention to them and they couldn't get a word in.

Su Shiyan, Su Chenyan and Su Boyan were debating in low voices with a few others, and they burst into laughter from time to time.

Although I was tired after a day, I was still full of energy and passion, in my prime.

Xiao Qin looked at her eldest son, whose every move and gesture was very similar to that of Su Laoer when he was young.

Little Qin stared blankly, realizing how time flies. In the blink of an eye, her eldest son is about to become an adult, and then she realizes that her youth is gone and her beauty has faded.

Turning around to look at Su Laoer, the three brothers were gathered together talking and laughing, looking relaxed and contented.

Among the three brothers, Su Laoer is the tallest, the strongest, and has suffered the most. He has a mature and honest face.

My eldest uncle Su Bucheng has grown into middle-aged. Although he looks a little weathered, he is still elegant and refined, like a hermit who has retired to the countryside, exuding a calm and composed temperament.

Xiao Qinshi can't stand her husband being timid and always doing whatever his uncle says without having his own opinions.

He worked in the Ministry of Works as a ninth-rank official for four or five years, and was finally promoted to a ninth-rank official, where he worked for another four or five years.

Su Laosan had already climbed down to the eighth rank. If he had not been exiled, he would have been promoted to the upper eighth rank by now.

Among the three brothers, the second brother was the worst off. She tried to persuade him to talk to his eldest uncle and get some help to move up. However, Su Laoer told her not to meddle in men's affairs.

Alas, we are all exiled to this damn place, and the people in the eldest wife use the excuse of being busy with this and that to throw the heavy and tiring work to the second and third sons.

The eldest wife is used to taking advantage of others and reaping the benefits, making the second and third wives run around in circles, but the second and third wives are happy to do so!

In the end, she was divorced!

Xiao Qinshi couldn't understand it. She was clearly doing it for the good of the second wife and was wholeheartedly protecting her interests.

I hope my husband can stand up for himself, support the second wife, find an opportunity to separate the family, and live a small life away from the first wife.

Why was she divorced in the end?

Looking at Mrs. Du and Mrs. Wei, the women and children gathered together and sat around Old Lady Su.

Seeing Su Ying picking up food for the old lady, Xiao Qin thought she was dazzled and hallucinating, it seemed so unreal!

The grandfather and grandson had long been at odds with each other, when did they become different again?

They were all talking, and their voices were not quiet, but it didn't feel noisy at all. Instead, it felt warm and quiet.

Everyone has a smile on their face and light in their eyes.

Old Madam Su stared at the soft, fragrant, and sticky piece of lamb tripe in the bowl in a daze. What had happened to that damn girl Su Ying today? For the first time in her life, she was picking up some food for her.

Ever since Su Bucheng was stripped of his official position and exiled to Lingnan, Old Lady Su hated Su Ying and insulted and beat her from time to time.

She saw the hatred in the eyes of this dead girl.

She was no longer the kind and gentle grandmother, and the damn girl was no longer submissive and docile. Instead, she was like a thorn, very prickly.

Why are you trying to show your goodwill by picking up some food today? Old Mrs. Su was very confused.

"Eat! Things will get better, and what belongs to you will still be yours! You still have to take care of this family!" Su Ying smiled at the old lady.

During last night's farce, it was thanks to the old lady's prompt action to calm down the trouble-making mother and daughter, Xiao Qinshi and Su He.

The old lady's methods were drastic, which changed Su Ying's opinion of her. The old lady was selfish, sometimes unreasonable, petty, and liked to put on airs and manipulate others.

But the old lady had her wisdom, she knew how to act in moderation and when to stop.

Assess the situation, have a broad perspective, and act decisively.

The second uncle wanted to divorce Xiao Qinshi, and Su Shiyan and others knelt down and begged him. It was a dilemma.

Sparing Xiao Qinshi would only encourage her to act more unscrupulously. Not sparing her would inevitably create a rift between the second uncle and his son.

If the father, as the eldest uncle, takes action, he would be overstepping his authority and would be criticized.

It’s different when the old lady comes out. Because of seniority and status, others can’t say a word.

Decisively deal with Xiao Qinshi, and Su He stepped forward again.

The old lady picked up her cane and beat Su He, wanting to expel him from the family without any hesitation.

Speaking of which, apart from her three sons, the person closest to her is Xiao Qin, her cousin from her natal family.

But the old lady doesn't care who you are. Anyone who shakes the roots of the Su family is her enemy.

No matter what, they were removed ruthlessly like fallen leaves swept away by the autumn wind.

Through this comparison, Su Ying discovered that her father Su Bucheng had a spirit of hard work, was a good official dedicated to serving the people, was friendly and respectful to his brothers, and was a good brother.

But it lacks the old lady's decisiveness.

Perhaps it is because he has developed the habit of being cautious after working as a grassroots official for a long time, and he always thinks over and over again before doing anything, and lacks decisiveness.

Moreover, men are in charge of external affairs while women are in charge of internal affairs. If a man is asked to deal with the disputes and disturbances among the women in the house, it will make the man appear narrow-minded.

Therefore, Xiao Qinshi and Su He jumped around again and again, thinking that no one could control them.

I'm not afraid of god-like opponents, but I'm afraid of pig-like teammates.

Although the old lady and Su Ying do not get along, they have a common goal, which is to make the Su family live a good life.

The old lady would curse and hit people with her cane, but she never stopped Su Ying from doing things. The two of them could be considered strategic partners.